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Date:      Fri, 25 Sep 2015 00:11:51 +0300
From:      Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru>
To:        Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher@yandex.ru>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-rc@FreeBSD.org, Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org>, cem@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: dumpdev in loader.conf vs rc.d/dumpon
Message-ID:  <20150924211151.GT21849@zxy.spb.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20150924205800.GA1475@garage.freebsd.pl>
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On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 10:58:00PM +0200, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 02:18:50PM +0300, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 11:28:05AM +0300, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote:
> > 
> > > On 23.09.2015 19:57, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> > > > I do not have a strong opinion.  Either option, rc.d/dumpon change or geom_dev
> > > > change, is fine with me.
> > > 
> > > I added the ability to set dumpdev via loader. But I wasn't aware that
> > > it was used in rc.d script.
> > > 
> > > If you have set dumpdev kenv, it will be already enabled in the time
> > > when rc.d/dumpon  will be run. So, I think it is useless to try to
> > > enable dumpdev again. I prefer remove this old code from rc.d script.
> > 
> > rc.d script can redirect dump to device, not available at boot time,
> > iSCSI disk, for examle.
> 
> No. Dump device is very special. It runs in an environment when kernel
> already paniced, there are no interrupt, so there is no networking.
> Storage controllers have special methods to handle dumping kernel memory
> - it doesn't go through GEOM, it cannot go through GEOM as the scheduler
> doesn't work too.

Can be ZFS VOL act as dump device?



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